Anti-tax crusader Irwin Schiff was found guilty Monday of charges including conspiracy, tax evasion and tax fraud.

Schiff, 77, who argues that paying taxes is voluntary, was handcuffed and led from U.S. District Court after a jury found him guilty of all 13 charges.

Judge Kent Dawson could sentence Schiff to up to 43 years in prison and up to $3.25 million in fines, plus unspecified sanctions for outbursts during the trial. He ordered Schiff jailed without bond until sentencing Jan. 20.

Schiff promoted his theories in lectures, radio appearances and books, including "The Federal Mafia: How the Government Illegally Imposes and Unlawfully Collects Income Taxes" and "The Great Income Tax Hoax: Why You Can Immediately Stop Paying This Illegally Enforced Tax."

Austin, Texas

Judge to handle DeLay's request

A retired Texas judge was appointed Monday to decide if state district Judge Bob Perkins should continue presiding over Rep. Tom DeLay's trial on money-laundering and conspiracy charges.

C.W. Duncan, a former state district judge, will hold a hearing Nov. 1 on DeLay's request that Perkins leave the case because he has contributed money to candidates and Democratic causes that oppose DeLay.

In the document asking Perkins to step aside, attorneys for the former House majority leader listed 34 contributions that Perkins made to Democratic organizations and candidates, including three to Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., when he was running for president in 2004. Others went to the Democratic National Committee, the party's Texas arm and MoveOn.org., a liberal interest group.

DeLay, R-Texas, and two associates are accused of laundering money through the national Republican Party to Texas legislative candidates, despite a state law prohibiting use of corporate money to support or defeat state candidates.

Los Angeles

Williams execution scheduled for Dec. 13

A judge signed a death warrant Monday for Stanley "Tookie" Williams, a co-founder of the notorious Crips gang who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his children's books.

Williams is scheduled to die Dec. 13 at San Quentin prison. The judge rejected requests by his attorneys to delay the execution until Dec. 22 to give them more time to seek clemency from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

"This case has taken over 24 years to get to this point," Superior Court Judge William Pounders said. "That is a long delay in itself and I would hate to add to that delay."

Williams, 51, and a high-school friend started the Crips street gang in Los Angeles in 1971. He was sentenced to death in 1981 for fatally shooting Albert Owens, a convenience-store worker, in 1979.

Williams maintains he is innocent, and supporters cite his renunciation of his past and his efforts to curtail gang violence, including a series of children's books he co-wrote in prison.

New York

Afghan drug suspect pleads not guilty

A Taliban-linked drug lord who allegedly sought to poison U.S. streets with millions of dollars of heroin in a deadly "American jihad" has become the first person extradited from Afghanistan to face federal charges, officials said Monday.

Haji Baz Mohammad, one of the world's "most wanted, most powerful and most dangerous" drug kingpins, had helped finance the Taliban by selling opium since 1990, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administrator Karen Tandy said.

"In return, the Taliban protected Mohammad's crops, his heroin labs, his drug transportation labs and his associates," Tandy said after a conspiracy indictment was unsealed accusing Mohammad of smuggling more than $25 million of heroin into the United States and elsewhere.

The defendant was arrested in Afghanistan in January and arrived in the United States on Friday, authorities said. In his first appearance in court Monday, Mohammad said through an interpreter, "I am innocent." He was ordered held without bail. His lawyer declined to comment afterward.

6 hurt when car crashes into hospital

An elderly woman on her way to a doctor appointment smashed her car into the hospital's lobby, sending six women to the emergency room, police said.

The 87-year-old driver, Ruth Otto of Mandan, also was injured when she sideswiped the building and a car before cruising through a glass wall, Bismarck police Officer Dave Horner said.

Medcenter One spokesman Chuck Bartholomay said two women were in serious condition and one was stable. Three others were treated and released.

Compiled from The Associated Press